‘Mercury to start sliding down from latter half of this week’

MP, 11 Nov 2024, Kolkata: The Regional Meteorological Centre in Alipore predicted that the mercury will start sliding down from the latter half of this week paving the way for the winter to set in. 

All the districts in South Bengal witness winter cold after November 15. The MeT office said that there may be light rainfall in Darjeeling and Kalimpong. 

The other districts in North Bengal will mostly stay dry. Incidentally, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) in September had issued a severe weather alert, forecasting an unusually harsh winter across the country. 

The onset of the La Niña phenomenon, a climate pattern characterised by cooler-than-average sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific, is expected to significantly lower temperatures. 

La Niña, which typically begins between April and June, is driven by strong easterly winds that push ocean waters westward, cooling the ocean surface. 

The influence of La Niña was already being felt, with the 2024 monsoon season extending beyond its usual end in September.According to weather experts, La Niña is associated with various climate shifts, including heightened hurricane activity in the Atlantic, droughts in parts of South America and wetter conditions in Southeast Asia and Australia. 

The MeT office had earlier said that the people in South Bengal may get a feeling of winter from the middle of November as there was likely to be a change in the weather system. The cold northern wind will have an uninterrupted flow from the middle of the month, as the experts pointed out. 

According to the IMD, there is a rainfall alert for states like Kerala, Tamil Nadu as a low pressure formed over Bay of Bengal. Heavy rainfall is expected in Chennai from November 11-17. There is no prediction of any heavy rainfall in Bengal yet. 

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